It had to be proof that women were all sadists and believed men should be punished for having penises. Getting even for that whole Garden incident with the snake.The dressing room door opened, and Lydia, Laura’s oldest sister, stepped out into the spacious corridor, where Nathan sat on a leather sofa next to Barb, his future mother-in-law.“I don’t think I like the color,” Lydia said, tiptoeing to stand in front of the trifold mirror. She smoothed the front of the green dress with dark brown stripes. Lydia and Leslie both took after their mother, who, for reasons that spoke to a neurosis Nathan couldn’t identify, had decided to give all her girls names beginning with “L.” They were short, top-heavy, curvy women with blonde, chemically enhanced hair and clinically detached blue eyes.Barb pursed her lips. “Are you thinking it’s for the engagement party?”“Maybe.” Lydia eyed her own rear view. “Or just a dinner out with Kevin,” she said, referring to her husband.
